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Food Ethics, Part Two — Waste Not, Want Not

Today’s post is devoted to the the second pillar of food ethics identified last time — how to minimize food waste.  In my observation, we Americans waste a lot of food.  This is especially true for those who have never known want and therefore tend not to see waste as a problem.   Although I have wasted an embarrassing amount… Continue reading Food Ethics, Part Two — Waste Not, Want Not

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Food Ethics, Part One — What They Are, and Why They’re Important

In my youth, I spent a lot of time in my grandmother’s kitchen.  She was a child of the Great Depression who was fond of saying “those who waste will come to want.”  I heard this phrase every time I started to discard what I thought was an empty tub of margarine, as she would intercept it from me and eke… Continue reading Food Ethics, Part One — What They Are, and Why They’re Important